The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

For the future. For the unborn.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?